Title: multisite vs. multiple installs
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# multisite vs. multiple installs

 *  [Florin Andrei](https://wordpress.org/support/users/florin-andrei/)
 * (@florin-andrei)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-vs-multiple-installs/)
 * I’m new to WP and I’m trying to gauge the problems / benefits of a single multisite
   install, versus several separate installs.
 * This will be a very small number of blogs (only 2 for now), each hosted under
   its own hostname, on a dedicated machine. There will be a number of users posting
   to any of these blogs. Once in a while, the posts will overlap (will need to 
   be submitted to any or all blogs at once); otherwise, the posts will be separate.
   If there’s an easy way to do that, I’ll go with the WP multisite; otherwise, 
   several separate WP instances seems easier to me.
 * Any thoughts or comments?

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 *  [Simon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/simon_p/)
 * (@simon_p)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-vs-multiple-installs/#post-2168088)
 * I was in a similar situation a while ago and decided to give Multisite a go for
   ease of a single network login etc, also I think that Multisite would take less
   server space than several single WP sites, though this maynot be an issue, also
   only a single upgrade of the next WP etc.
    You can also add a development site
   in your network so you can use that to play/experiment with, if you make a mistake,
   no real harm done.
 * One thing I would suggest is to use the domain mapping plugin so you can have
   domain names instead of sub domains or sub directories, domain mapping is a little
   tricky to setup if you are new to WP, as I was, but there are some good tutorials
   and YouTube videos on how to do it.
 * I think that going the Multisite is a good route if you think you are going to
   have several blogs.
 * The only drawback I have found is that one or two plugins don’t work for a network,
   but there often seems to be a network version.
 * But, hey ho, I’m pretty new to WP, so some more experienced users may have better
   advice.

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